Drew also admitted that her 10-week-old daughter is a "nice person". Which probably means she only wets the bed one night out of five

We'd like it if Drew named her daughter after a more interesting vegetable (Photo: Wireimage)

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Not that we've done it, but squeezing a human being out of your body has always struck us as a rather "surprising" experience. Is it a boy? Is it a girl? Will it be cute enough for people to coo over, but not so cute that they try to steal it?

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And now Drew Barrymore has revealed that choosing the baby's name is just as unexpected. The actress, who gave birth to her daughter in September, popped onto the Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about how she and her husband Will Kopelman came up with the name Olive.

"I never would have guessed that would have been the name," she said. "But I was reading a book with my husband. I was three months pregnant and they said your baby is the size of an olive, and that was it. We never looked back."

"It could have been the since of a peanut, or a grapefruit..." Ellen said.

"It could have been," Drew replied. "There were a lot of fruit and vegetables."

“You’re kind of crazy right now,” Ellen joked. “How nice can she be to people? She’s 10-weeks-old.”

"She is selling it," Drew replied. "She is working it. She is so great."

“Olive is a definite ambassador to having lots of babies," she added. "I have met babies who are screaming and crying and they’re trying to convey all these things. You get so terrified and overwhelmed. I’m very grateful to her that she has it together. She’s really impressing me.”

Which is quite impressive. We're a few weeks older than Olive, and we definitely don't have it together yet.